OtherInterests.Rmd

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title: "Other Interests"
description: |
  A place to keep track of odds and ends.
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```

### My Scientific Interests on the Backburner
Here's a list of some unpublished work or aspirational projects that I'm trying to find time for:

* I conducted a preliminary study with not-so-good data on the time course of C-reactive protein in human serum of cancer patients. I would like to investigate this further in case this can lead to the optimisation of treatment times.

* I have Python routines written for JuPYTeR notebooks that assist the non-specialist in the testing of model structures for structural global identifiability (SGI).

* The progression of an infectious disease through a population could behave like a linear switching system if some intervention (e.g. lockdown, mask wearing) happened at a particular point. I would like to apply my methods to such a system.

* Sometimes Maple is unable to simplify complex expressions. Some approaches to the problem resulted from my analysis of linear switching systems. 

* I would like to further explore visualisations that can help the user understand when a model structure lacks the property of SGI.

### Various Other Interests and Links

* The ["Theory of Living Systems"](https://www.theoryoflivingsystems.org/) webcast seminar series is good.

* The Environmental Science Meeting for Australian Research Teams ([EnviSMART](https://alec.science.unimelb.edu.au/sample-page/events/)) is a monthly online seminar series by environmental science researchers.

* The homepage of the "Centre for Anthropogenic Pollution Impact and Management" ([CAPIM](https://capim.unimelb.edu.au/)) at The University of Melbourne.


* Python package SymPy is great for open-source symbolic algebra.